Archivnye materialy po istorii zapadnoevropeĭskogo i rossiĭskogo kitaevedenii︠a︡ : k izdanii︠u︡ raboty V.P. Taranovicha "Nauchnai︠a︡ perepiska Sankt-Peterburgskoĭ akademii nauk s iezuitami, prozhivavshimi v Pekine v XVIII veke" /  T.A. Pan, O.V. Shatalov.

Includes bibliographical references.

In Russian:

АРХИВНЫЕ МА ТЕ РИАЛЫ ПО ИСТОРИИ АПАДНОЕВРОПЕЙСКОГО И РОССИЙСКОГО КИТАЕВЕДЕНИЯ
(К изданию работы В.П. Тарановича «Научная переписка Санкт-Петербургской Академии наук с иезуитами, проживавшими в Пекине в XVIII веке» ) Санкт-Петербург-Воронеж, 2004 = [ARCHIVAL MATERIALS ON THE HISTORY OF WESTERN EUROPEAN AND RUSSIAN SINITIC STUDIES
(To the publication of the work of V.P. Taranovich "Scientific correspondence of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences with the Jesuits who lived in Beijing in the 18th century")]

At head of title: 

РОССИЙСКАЯ АКАДЕМИЯ НАУК Санкт-Петербургский филиал Института востоковедения
МИНИСТЕРСТВО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ Воронежский государственный университет Факультет международных отношений
Кафедра международных отношений и регионоведения = [THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES St. Petersburg branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies - MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION - Voronezh State University - Faculty of International Relations - Department of International Relations and Regional Studies]

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China and Europe : images and influences in sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / edited by Thomas H.C. Lee.
"....selected papers presented in the International Symposium: China and Europe, 16th-18th centuries, organized by Office of International Studies Programmes, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in March 1987."
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Christianity and Chinese intellectuals: from the Chinese point of view / Thomas H.C. Lee. – The first European translations of Chinese historical and philosophical works / Knud Lundbæk. – China in the political thought of Western and Central Europe, 1570-1750 / Walter Demel. – China in European political thought, 1750-1850 / Günther Lottes. – Confucianism in the Enlightenment: antagonism and collaboration between the Jesuits and the Philosophes / D.E. Mungello. – Jesuit Figurism / Michael Lackner. – Chinese influence in France, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Danielle Elisseeff-Poisle. – Images of Asia and Asians in European fiction, 1500-1800 / Theodore Nicholas Foss and Donald F. Lach. – China and Europe: scientific and technological exchanges from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Peng Yoke Ho. – Some problems concerning the transfer of science and technical knowledge / Francesca Bray. – Chinese influence on European art, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Lothar Ledderose. – European influences on Chinese art, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Mayching Kao. – Western studies and Confucian responses in eighteenth-century Korea / Orun Kihyup Kim.

Jap-Sin II, 32
Chousuan 籌算.
By Luo Yagu 羅雅谷 (Giacomo Rho).
One juan. Bound in one volume, European style. No date or place of publication.

The first folio mentions the collection (Xiyang xinfa lishu and the section to which the text belongs: 西洋新法曆書，法數部，籌算, the chief compiler (Xu Guangqi): 明禮部尚書兼翰林院學士協理詹事府事加一級俸徐光啟督修，the author and reviser (Giacomo Rho and Adam Schall): 修政曆法極西耶穌會士羅雅谷撰，湯若望訂，and the proofreaders (Zhu Guoshou, Zhu Guangda, Chen Suoxing, Huang Hongxian, Sun Silie and Jiao Yingxu): 門人朱國壽，朱光大， 陳所性， 黃宏憲， 孫嗣烈，焦應旭受法.

There is a preface, dated 20.III 1628 (Chongzhen 1) by Rho himself, followed by the table of contents of the book. The whole book consists of thirty-nine folios. There are nine columns in each half folio with twenty-one or twenty-two characters to each column. The title of the book and the number of the folio are given in the middle of each folio.

Rho states in his preface that the science of calculation is so widely employed in scientific studies as well as in people’s daily life that it can be called universal. He then goes on to say that though the study of arithmetic was common among his countrymen, those who were poor in memory found it hard to learn. The Napier’s rods method was invented to facilitate the study of arithmetic. It was for this purpose that this book was written in Chinese as a new method to help Chinese students.

Cf. Pfister, p. 191, no. 16 (Arithmétique népérienne, 1 vol.); Couplet, p. 23 (De Arithmetica); Wylie, p. 112 (On the Principle of Napier’s Rods).

Source: Albert Chan, Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome (2002), p. 314-315.

Full bibliographic information see Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database)
Local access dig. archives, see folder ARSI Jap-Sin I-IV (II, 32)

Ecological crisis and strategy in the Jesuit China mission / Adam Parr

Journal of Jesuit Studies 11 (2024)

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Abstract: In Laudate Deum (2023), Pope Francis calls on those negotiating today’s climate emergency to be “strategists.” No organization has a longer history of strategy-making than the pope’s alma mater, the Society of Jesus, whose China mission was founded during an ecological crisis. No Jesuit is more celebrated as a strategist than Matteo Ricci (1552–1610), who observed the effects of that crisis in 1604 and praised the emperor’s response but noted its inadequacy. As a result of this, and the influence of Xu Guangqi (1562–1633), the idea of introducing European science to China materialized as the final strand of the China mission’s strategy. Xu’s own career was dedicated to preserving Ming China through agricultural and military reform, and his ideas are present in Ricci’s work. Thus, Ricci’s strategy-making was forged in the context of challenges recognizable today, and its strengths and limitations represent a resource for the strategists addressed by Pope Francis.

Abstract: After the suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773, the French missionary Joseph-Marie Amiot, last of the great Jesuit scholars of China, befriended the Manchu prince Hongwu 弘旿, court artist and cousin of the Qianlong emperor. Hongwu became the most enthusiastic local patron of the ex-Jesuits still living in Beijing, helping them with research and providing them with information. Together, Amiot and Hongwu discussed new developments in natural philosophy, from electrical medicine to gas balloons. They conducted experiments in the Jesuit’s quarters at the North Church and in the prince’s nearby mansion, drawing from European and Chinese traditions alike to explain them. In the end, they concluded that their investigations were socially and politically dangerous, so they decided to keep them secret. It has generally seemed that the missionaries who remained in Beijing toward the end of the eighteenth century had few local encounters and failed to communicate contemporary natural philosophy; the story of the friendship between Hongwu and Amiot is a notable exception, revealing that cross-cultural exchange remained possible.

Local access dig. pdf. [Statman-Forgotten friendship.pdf]

Local access dig.pdf. [Cervera-Rho Chousuan.pdf]

Johann Schreck Terrentius, SJ : his European network and the origins of the Jesuit library in Peking / Noël Golvers.
Included bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. The European 'Tour’
1.1 The prelude: Terrentius's academic Wanderjahre (c. 1590-1610): From Freiburg to Rome
1.2 Rome (1610-15)
1.3 From Rome to Lisbon: Terrentius's tour as Trigault's companion for China (1616-18)

Chapter 2. The People
2.1 Personal acquaintances: the 'active' network
2.2 Other names

Chapter 3. The Books and Instruments Collected
3.1 Terrentius's personal reading and the Fondo Faber
3.2 The 331 books bought (or received) at the Officina Plantiniana in Antwerp (December, 1616)
3.3 The 75 books, with the inscription: "Missionis Sinensis"
3.4 The instruments
3.5 The arrival in Macau and Peking

Chapter 4. The Multiple Competences of the Polymath Terrentius
4.1 Medicine: Terrentius's double profile
4.2 Mineralogy: minerals, mining and mineral sources
4.3 Botany
4.4 Mathematics
4.5 Terrentius astronomer
4.6 Calendar
4.7 Terrentius and magnetism
4.8 Cryptography
4.9 Linguistics
4.10 Encyclopedism

Chapter 5. A Final Assessment of Terrentius

Appendices
1. Bibliotheca Pontificia in the actual Beitang collection
2. Documents in the archives of the Officina Plantiniana
3. List of the 75 books in the Beitang catalogue with the inscription: "Missionis Sinensis"
4. Short title catalogue of Plantin-Moretus editions among the books Terrentius-Trigault acquired in Europe
5. Necrology of Terrentius (1630)
6. List of 36 letters from / the 35 letters to Terrentius

A thorough analysis of the sinuous peregrinatio academica of Johann Terrentius Schreck (1576-1630) between 1600-1618 through (South-, Central- and NW-) European universities, academies and courts (at Freiburg /Br.; Paris; Rome; Basel; Padua; Strasbourg, Prague, Kassel, etc.) and his rich correspondence displays a widespread network of contacts, covering a broad range of domains, from medicine to alchemy, pharmacy, botany, and through engineering to (pure and applied) mathematics, and calendar making. In all these domains of the contemporary ?Republic of Letters?, this former student of François Viète (Paris), Galileo (Padua) and ex-Lincean, adept of Copernicus and Paracelsus showed himself to be a passionate scholar with multi-faceted and versatile talents. After 1611, with this very rich experience he entered the Society of Jesus, and shortly afterward he was appointed as companion of Nicolas Trigault, who was touring through Europe (1615-1618) as procurator on behalf of the fledgling Jesuit Mission in China, seeking funds, men, books and scientific instruments. This second phase of intensive travelling through European centers of scholarship, patronage, and printing (including Rome; Venice; Basel; Frankfurt; Cologne, Antwerp, etc.) resulted in an enormous collection of books and instruments, which were dispatched to Lisbon from various points in 1617/1618. Shipped to China, these materials arrived in Macau in 1619, and in Peking in 1625, becoming the core of the Jesuit libraries, mainly in Peking, and the basis for the scholarly activities of the Jesuits over the following decades in the domains of mathematics, calendar making, medicine, etc.

Local access dig.pdf. [Golvers-Johann Schreck Terrentius.pdf]

Languages of science between Western and Eastern civilizations / Carlo Ferrari et al.

Contents

Carlo Ferrari, Fabio Guidetti, and Chiara Ombretta Tommasi, Introduction--Alberto Anrò, Method Matters: Languages of Exact Sciences in Sanskrit and LatinCorpora--Sara Procaccini, Antroponimi, toponimi e realia nei testi latini sulla Cina--Noël Golvers, Jesuit Libraries on Western Sciences (xi xue) in China in the Seventeenth–Eighteenth Century--Sven Günther, The Role of “Western” Antiquity in G.P. Maffei’s Historiae Indicae, Book 6: China--Michele Castelnovi, Clausa recludo: Martino Martini and the Dissemination in Europe of Cartographic Knowledge about China--Claudia von Collani, Astronomy East and West: Johann Adam Schall von Bell 湯若望 and the Chinese Calendar--Arianna Magnani, The Human Body “Translated” Across Geographical and Cultural Borders: Medical Knowledge Circulating Between China and Europe from Late Ming to Early Qing--Tiziana Lippiello, The Language of Wisdom Between Chinese and Latin: Prospero Intorcetta and the Doctrine of the Mean--Li Hui 李慧, Sanctissimus magister: On the Vita Confusii (1739) by Carlo Orazi da Castorano--Kim Kihoon 김기훈, A Short Introduction to the Codices of Matteo Ricci’s Jiaoyoulun 交友論--Antonio De Caro, Teaching Jesuit Spirituality in Nineteenth-century Zi-ka-wei: The Dissertationes Theologicae (1849–1856) and the Ascetica Nomenclatio (1877) by Fr. Angelo A. Zottoli S.J.--Raissa De Gruttola, Franciscans and Latin Language in China: An Introduction to the Missionary Periodical Apostolicum--Aldo Petrucci, Diritto romano e tradizione giuridica cinese nell’ultimo secolo--Federico Andrea Galatolo, Gabriele Martino, Mario G.C.A. Cimino, and Chiara Ombretta Tommasi, SERICA Digital Library: ricerca di testi antichi attraverso Neural NLP--Bibliography--Editors and Contributors--Index of Names

Local access dig.pdf (open access). [Ferrari et al-Languages of science between Western and Eastern civilizations.pdf]

第1册. 明清之際西學的再認識. 天主實錄. 齋旨 (附《化人九要》). 聖經約錄. 七克. 天主教要. 童幼教育. 西學凡. 性學觕述. 靈言蠡勺. 況義. 萬物真原. 睡答, 畫答. 主制羣徵. 靈魂道體說 -- 第2冊. 修身西學. 齊家西學. 治平西學. 譬學. 達道紀言. 西方答問. 五十言餘. 超性學要 (節錄). 逑友篇. 西方要紀. 四末真論. 窮理學 (節錄). 格致奧略 -- 第3冊. 泰西水法. 表度說. 天問略. 泰西人身說概. 測食 (略). 地震解. 遠鏡說. 遠西奇器圖說錄最. 寰有詮. 空際格致. 大測. 幾何要法. 斐錄答彙 -- 第4冊. 火攻挈要. 新曆曉或. 西洋新法曆書 (節錄). 天步真原. 曆學會通 (節錄). 新製靈臺儀象志 (節錄). 坤輿圖說. 地球圖說. 獅子說. 進呈鷹論. 律呂纂要. 律呂正義·續編 (節錄). 視學 / 年希堯. 自鳴鐘錶圖說.

Di 1 ce. Ming-Qing zhiji Xixue de zai renshi. Tianzhu shilu. Zhaizhi (fu "Huaren jiuyao"). Shengjing yuelu. Qike. Tianzhu jiaoyao. Tongyou jiaoyu. Xixue fan. Xingxue cushu. Lingyan lishao. Kuangyi. Wanwu zhenyuan. Shuida, huada. Zhuzhi qunzheng. Linghun daoti shuo --
Di 2 ce. Xiushen Xixue. Qijia Xixue. Zhiping Xixue. Pixue. Dadao jiyan. Xifang dawen. Wushi yanyu. Chaoxing xueyao (jielu). Qiuyou pian. Xifang yaoji. Simo zhenlun. Qiongli xue (jielu). Gezhi aolüe --
Di 3 ce. Taixi shuifa. Biaodu shuo. Tianwen lüe. Taixi renshen shuogai. Ceshi (lüe). Dizhen jie. Yuanjing shuo. Yuanxi qiqi tushuo luzui. Huanyouquan. Kongji gezhi. Dace. Jihe yaofa. Feilu dahui --
D 4 ce. Huogong qieyao. Xinli xiaohuo. Xiyang xinfa lishu (jielu). Tianbu zhenyuan. Lixue huitong (jielu). Xinzhi lingtai yixiang zhi (jielu). Kunyu tushuo. Diqiu tushuo. Shizi shuo. Jincheng yinglun. Lülü zuanyao. Lülü zhengyi, xubian (jielu). Shixue / Nian Xiyao. Zimingzhong biaotu shuo.

"明清之際, 西方天主教傳教士在來華過程中出版了大量的中文著作. 這些著作涉及到宗教神學, 教育學, 倫理學, 邏輯學, 語言學, 心理學, 哲學, 美術學, 文藝學, 地理學, 歷史學, 天文學, 地理學, 物理學, 醫學, 數學(主要是幾何學), 植物學和動物學等眾多學科, 是各個學科史追根溯源必須涉及到的內容, 在中西文化交流史, 清代思想史和學術史上, 都具有著不容忽視的價值."--Description on OCLC record.

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Mythistory in Sino-Western contacts : Jesuit missionaries and the pillars of Chinese Catholic religion / Min-sun Chen.
Includes bibliographical references.
"This collection of ten published articles and two revised preliminary papers were written between the years of 1966 and 1996....reflected my understanding of the seventeenth-century historical facts and their meaning in the history of Sino-Western cultural contacts."—preface.
Older articles in Wade-Giles romanization.

1. The confrontation of mythistories in seventeenth-century Sino-Western contacts. -- 2. Hsu Kuang-ch’i (1562-1633). -- 3. Hsu Kuang-ch’i (1562-1633) and his image of the West. -- 4. Adam Schall, Hsu Kuang-ch’i and Li T’ien-ching. -- 5. Ferdinand Verbiest and the geographical works by Jesuits in Chinese, 1584-1674. -- 6. The conversion of Li Zhizao (1565-1630) : an inquiry into reasons. -- 7. Li Chih-tsao and the T’ien-hsueh ch’u-han. -- 8. T’ien-hsueh ch’u-han and Hsi-hsueh fan: the common bond between Li Chih-tsao and Giulio Aleni. -- 9. Re-evaluating the Jesuit contributions to Chinese scientific knowledge in the seventeenth-century. -- 10. China in the early seventeenth-century: Alvarez Semedo’s History of the Great and Renowned Monarchy of China. -- 11. Martino Martini and his History of the Manchu Conquest of China. -- 12. Philippine sources of Palafox y Mendoza’s History of the Conquest of China by the Tartars.

Chinese dynasties -- I. Introduction. Prologue ; Ming classification on the eve of Jesuit contact -- II. Natural studies and the Jesuits. The Late Ming calendar crisis and Gregorian reform ; Sino-Jesuit accommodations during the seventeenth century ; The limits of Western learning in the early eighteenth century ; The Jesuit role as experts in high Qing cartography and technology -- III. Evidential research and natural studies. Evidential research and the restoration of ancient learning ; Seeking the truth and high Qing mathematics -- IV. Modern science and the Protestants. Protestants, education, and modern science to 1880 ; The construction of modern science in late Qing China -- V. Qing reformism and modern science. Government arsenals, science, and technology in China after 1860 ; Displacement of traditional Chinese science and medicine in the twentieth century -- Appendixes. Tang mathematical classics ; Some translations of chemistry, 1855-1873 ; Science outline series, 1882-1898 ; Partial chronological list of arsenals, etc., in China, 1861-1892 ; Table of contents for the 1886 Primers for science studies (Gezhi qimeng) ; Twenty-three fields of the sciences in the 1886 Primers for science studies ; Science compendia published in China from 1877 to 1903.

Also in digital pdf format: [Elman-ScienceChina.pdf]

Qingshi yicong : di er ji 清史譯叢 : 第二輯 = Qing history overseas research / Yu Pei 于沛 (1944-) and Guojia Qingshi bianzuan weiyuanhui bianyizu 國家清史編纂委員會編譯組, eds.

1. Early Chinese cosmopolitanism -- 2. China and Catholicism in the Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries -- 3. Foreign goods and foreign knowledge in the Eighteenth century -- 4. The turning of the tables, 1796-1860 -- 5. Shields and swords, 1860-1914 -- 6. Overcoming habits of mind, 1914-1949 -- 7. Culture and conflict, 1949-1997.

Added keywords: Jesuits, science, astronomy, mathematics, cartography, Jesuit mapping and surveying, Kangxi, Qianlong atlases, Matteo Ripa, engraving, Michel Benoist, missionaries, Christianity, Christian missions, anti-Christian literature, artillery, cannon, Chinese travellers to Europe, Louis Fan Shouyi, Michael Shen Fuzong, Jacob Li, Macartney mission interpreter.
Local access dig. [Waley-Cohen-Sextants of Beijing.epub]

本書以耶穌會士和天文學為主題, 系統查閱研讀了國內外所藏清代曆算著作,官方文獻和清人文集, 並與歐洲所藏第一手西文檔案資料互證, 在全球史和跨文化的視野下系統闡述天主教傳教士與歐洲天文學傳入中國的諸面相. 作者試圖將天文學傳播置於政治史,社會史和宗教史的語境中加以討論, 完整勾勒清代近兩百年間歐洲天文學在華傳播的歷程. 通過案例, 生動展現知識和權力交織的複雜背景, 進而揭示了康熙皇帝如何通過西學來達到控制漢人和洋人之目的; 深入分析了皇子,傳教士,欽天監官員和士大夫群體在知識傳播中所扮演的不同角色.

序章:　通天與敬天：歐洲科學在明清之際的傳播 -- 第一章: 耶穌會士與歐洲星占術著作的傳播 -- 第一節:　天啟崇禎間耶穌會士有關天文星占的相關論述 -- 第二節:　湯若望《天文實用》之編纂及其在清初的流傳 -- 第三節:　湯若望《天文實用》在乾隆時代的流傳 -- 第四節:　異端“新”知：穆尼閣對歐洲星占術的介紹 -- 第二章: 康熙初年曆法之爭與耶穌會士的東來 -- 第一節:　西洋曆法的改編與楊光先反教案 -- 第二節:　日影觀測與康熙研習西學之開端 -- 第三節:　來自澳門的“西學帝師” -- 第四節:　法國“國王數學家”來華 -- 第三章:　從觀星台事件到蒙養齋算學館的設立 -- 第一節:　觀星台事件和李光地對曆算的興趣 -- 第二節:　康熙時代的曆算活動與人才培養 -- 第三節:　蒙養齋算學館的建立及其曆算活動 -- 第四章:　科學與權力：日影觀測與康熙時代的曆法改革 -- 第一節:　康熙熱衷日影觀測之經過 -- 第二節:　1692年乾清宮之日影觀測 -- 第三節:　1711年日影觀測與曆法改革的緣起 -- 第五章:　“自立”精神與康熙時代的“西學中源”說 -- 第一節:　康熙西學態度的轉變及其背景 -- 第二節:　康熙與“西學中源”說的流行 -- 第三節:　士人對西學態度的演變 -- 第六章:　歐洲天文學新知的傳入與《欽若曆書》的編纂 -- 第一節:　蒙養齋算學館與格物窮理院 -- 第二節:　傅聖澤與歐洲新科學的介紹 -- 第三節:　《欽若曆書》的編纂與內容 -- 第七章:　科學和宗教之間：耶穌會士、禮儀之爭和日心說的傳播 -- 第一節:　科學和信仰：耶穌會士、奉教天文學家與禮儀之爭 -- 第二節:　耶穌會士和日心說的傳入 -- 第三節:　“用其技藝” ：康熙皇帝科學和宗教的兩手策略 -- 八章:　量天測地：耶穌會士與康乾時代的大地測量 -- 第一節:　康熙朝地圖測繪的背景 -- 第二節:　“西洋籌人”安多與子午線的測量-- 第三節:　地圖測繪的緣起和展開：測繪過程及路線 -- 第四節: 　乾隆時代的地圖測繪 -- 第九章:　復古與求新：雍正、乾隆間耶穌會士與宮廷天文學的傳播 -- 第一節:　宇宙體系的折中：《歷象考成後編》的編纂 -- 第二節: 會通中西：《儀象考成》的編修 -- 第三節:　耶穌會士與朝鮮燕行使的交往 -- 第四節:　後耶穌會士時代的宮廷天文學家 -- 結語

附錄一:　傅汎際、李之藻譯《寰有詮》及其相關問題 –- [一]　傅汎際和李之藻：《寰有詮》的譯者 -- [二]　《寰有詮》的底本及其翻譯 -- [三]　 新的天文觀測如何用於解釋亞里士多德宇宙論？ -- 附錄二:　新教傳教士與天文學的傳播（1807—1859）: [一]　 天王星知識在東南亞和中國沿海城市的傳播（嘉慶、咸豐朝）-- [二]　牛頓《自然哲學的數學原理》的早期傳播 -- [三]　 偉烈亞力：科學的傳播者和中國科學史研究的開拓者 -- 附錄三:　天文著作序跋彙編 -- 附錄四:　欽天監西洋人任職表 -- 附錄五:　外國人名表 -- 參考文獻 -- 索引 -- 後記.

Western learning and Christianity in China : the contribution and impact of Johann Adam Schall von Bell, 1592-1666 / edited by Roman Malek.
"The papers presented here ... are mainly the proceedings of the International Schall Symposium, held in Sankt Augustin in May 1992"-- p. xxi.
Each Western language essay includes Chinese abstract.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Vol. 1. Johann Adam Schall von Bell and his 1992 Anniversary / Roman Malek -- Johann Adam Schall von Bell : a Jesuit / Peter Hans Kolvenbach -- Schall's educational foundation and the intellectual climate of his time / Arnold Sprenger -- Three issues on Johann Adam Schall von Bell / Lu Yao 路遙 -- J. A. Schall von Bell : Weltbild und Weltchronologie in der Chinamission im 17. Jahrhundert / Claudia von Collani -- J. A. Schall von Bell and Chinese tradtional philosophy / Ma Biao -- J. Adam Schall von Bell and the transition from the Ming to the Ch'ing Dynasty / John W. Witek -- Schall's role in the reform period between the Ming and Qing dynasties / Liu Mengxi 劉夢溪 -- Schall and the first Dutch diplomatic mission to the Qing empire / Hao Zhenhua 郝鎮華 -- Mandschurische Inschriften und Zeugnisse zu Johann Adam Schall von Bell / Giovanni Stary -- The Lost sheep of Adam Schall: reflections on the past and present of Zhalan (Shala) Cemetery / Edward J. Malatesta.
Adam Schall in the Pei-yu lu (Beiyou lu 北游錄) of T'an Ch'ien (Tan Qian 談遷) and in the eyes of his contemporaries / Albert Chan 陳綸緒, S.J. -- Johann Adam Schall 湯若望, Hsü Kuang-ch'i (Xu Guangqi 徐光啟), and Li T'ien-ching (Li Tianjing 李田經) / Min-sun Chen -- Yang Guangxian's opposition to Johann Adam Schall: Christianity and western science in his work Budeyi 不得已 / Eugenio Menegon -- Wang Zheng 王徵: a scientist, philosopher, and Catholic in Ming dynasty China / Ren Dayuan 任大援 -- Theologie und Astronomie in China / Claudia von Collani -- Astronomy and astrology: J. Adam Schall von Bell / Tiziana Lippiello -- East-West cultural confrontation and compromise in early Ch'ing China: a case study on Adam Schall's civil calendars / Huang Yi-Long 黃一農 -- The "Calendar Case" in th early Qing dynasty re-examined / Zhang Dawei 張大衛 -- J. A. Schall von Bell and Ptolomaic astronomy in China: aspects of the Western New Calendar (Xiyang xinfa lishu 西洋新法歷書) / Jiang Xiaoyuan 江曉原 -- Johann Adam Schall and astronomical works on star mappings / Keizo Hashimoto 橋本敬造 -- J .A. Schall von Bell and his horizontal sundial of the New Western Calendar and the cultural exchange between China and foreign countries / Gu Ning 顧寧 -- Les cartes astronomiques des missionnaires Jesuites en Chine: de Johann Adam Schall von Bell à Ignace Kogler et leur influence en Coree at au Japon / Minako Debergh -- Several newly found astronomical instruments related to J. A. Schall von Bell / Yi Shitong 伊世同 -- Quotations from the works of J. A. Schall von Bell in the Yixiang zhi 議象志 of Ferdinand Verbiest / Nicole Halberghe -- Notes on planetary theories in Giacomo Rho's Wuwei lizhi 五緯曆指 / Jean-Claude Martzloff.

Vol. 2. The "Chinese sciences" in policy questions from Confucian civil examinations during the late Ming / Benjamin A. Elman -- Mathematical knowledge in the Chongzhen lishu 崇禎歷書 / Catherine Jami -- J .A. Schall von Bell and the spread of Georgius Agricola's De re metallica in late Ming China / Pan Jixing 潘吉星 -- J. A. Schall von Bell and his book On Telescopes (Yuanjing shuo 遠鏡說) / Zhang Zhishan 張至善 -- J. A. Schall von Bell und die wetlichen "Feuerwaffen" in China / Sun Xi 孫西 -- The Geyuan baxian biao 割圓八線表 and some remarks about the scientific collaboration between Schall, Rho, and Schreck / Isaia Iannaccone -- Diie Haltung der chinesischen Intellektuellen zur Xixue 西學 (Westliche Lehre) am Ende der Ming- und Anfang der Qing-Dynastie, Ein Vergleich von Matteo Ricci und Johann Adam Schall im Hinblick auf ihre Methode der "Evangelisierung durch Wissenschaft" / Yang Xiaohong 樣小紅 -- Modern scientific culture introduced into China by Catholic missionaries during the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties / Zhang Xiao 張曉 -- J. A. Schall von Bell in China: Propagating Catholicism through academic activities / Chen Song 陳崧 -- The religious works composed by J. A. Schall von Bell, especially his Zhuzhi qunzheng 主制群徵 and his efforts to convert the last Ming emperor / Adrian Dudink -- J. A. Schall and Zhuzhi qunzheng 主制群徵 / Zhao Pushan 趙璞珊 -- J. A. Schall and his work Zhuzhi qunzheng 主制群徵 / Xiao Liangqiong 肖良瓊 -- The wide apostolic concern of J. Adam Schall / Angelo S. Lazzarotto -- Der Beitrag von Johann Adam Schall von Bell zur einheimischen christlichen Kunst / Horst Rzepkowski -- J. A. Schall and the Jesuit mission in Vondel's Zungchin / Gregory Blue -- Der literarische Beitrag zur Darstellung der Jesuitenmission in China, insbesondere des Wirkens von J. Adam Schall von Bell / Adrian Hsia 夏瑞春 -- Das Portrat von Johann Adam Schall in Athanasius Kircher's China illustrata / Chang Sheng-ching 張省卿 -- Das Adam-Schall-Gemalde der Ars Sacra Pekinensis von Lu Hung-nien (Lu Hongnian 陸鴻年) / Horst Rzepkowski -- Differences and similarities of Chinese and Western culture as reflected in works written by early Jesuits in Chinese / Hao Guiyuan 郝貴遠 -- J. Adam Schall's writings in China / Yang Yi 楊怡 -- An introduction to some Chinese records and research on J. Adam Schall von Bell's scientific activities / Wang Bing 王冰 -- Research on J. Adam Schall von Bell in 19-20th century China / Gu Weimin 顧衛民 -- The Works of J. A. Schall von Bell in Tokugawa Japan / Yoshida Tadashi 吉田忠 -- Russian evidence of J. A. Schall von Bell / Tajana A. Pang -- The Development of the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus reconsidered in the light of new material / Noël Golvers -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz' Streben nach Harmonie zwischen China und Europa / Rita Widmaier -- The Introduction of European musical theory during the early Qing dynasty: the achievements of Thomas Pereira 徐日升 and Theodorico Pedrini 德理格 / Gerlinde Gild -- Science and faith in China today / Paul Shan 單國璽.

Keywords: European influences on Chinese science and technology, 16th, 17th, 18th, centuries; comments on Mendoza, Ricci, French Jesuits and French Royal mathematicians and academics; England's Royal Society, 17th-18th century astronomy, observatories, medicine and medical science, mechanics and mechanical arts, printing, movable type, porcelain.